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Attila Jeges 1c72c5a8f9 IMPALA-10234: Add support for cookie authentication to impala-shell
IMPALA-8584 added support for cookie authentication to Impala.
This change adds cookie authentication support to impala-shell
as well when using 'hs2-http' protocol.

Testing:
- Unit tests were added to test cookie handling methods.
- Tested e2e manually with nginx HTTP proxy.
TODO:
- Test with Knox HTTP proxy as well.

Change-Id: Icb0bc6e0f58f236866ca9913a2e63d97d5148f51
Reviewed-on: http://gerrit.cloudera.org:8080/16660
Reviewed-by: Attila Jeges <attilaj@cloudera.com>
Tested-by: Impala Public Jenkins <impala-public-jenkins@cloudera.com>
2020-11-17 19:21:19 +00:00
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Impala Interactive Shell

You can use the Impala shell tool (impala-shell) to connect to an Impala service. The shell allows you to set up databases and tables, insert data, and issue queries. For ad hoc queries and exploration, you can submit SQL statements in an interactive session. The impala-shell interpreter accepts all the same SQL statements listed in Impala SQL Statements, plus some shell-only commands that you can use for tuning performance and diagnosing problems.

To automate your work, you can specify command-line options to process a single statement or a script file. (Other avenues for Impala automation via python are provided by Impyla or ODBC.)

Installing

$ pip install impala-shell

Online documentation

Quickstart

Non-interactive mode

Processing a single query, e.g., show tables:

$ impala-shell -i impalad-host.domain.com -d some_database -q 'show tables'

Processing a text file with a series of queries:

$ impala-shell -i impalad-host.domain.com -d some_database -f /path/to/queries.sql

Launching the interactive shell

To connect to an impalad host at the default service port (21000):

$ impala-shell -i impalad-host.domain.com
Starting Impala Shell without Kerberos authentication
Connected to impalad-host.domain.com:21000
Server version: impalad version 2.11.0-SNAPSHOT RELEASE (build d4596f9ca3ea32a8008cdc809a7ac9a3dea47962)
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Welcome to the Impala shell.
(Impala Shell v3.0.0-SNAPSHOT (73e90d2) built on Thu Mar  8 00:59:00 PST 2018)

The '-B' command line flag turns off pretty-printing for query results. Use this
flag to remove formatting from results you want to save for later, or to benchmark
Impala.
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[impalad-host.domain.com:21000] >

Launching the interactive shell (secure mode)

To connect to a secure host using kerberos and SSL:

$ impala-shell -k --ssl -i impalad-secure-host.domain.com

Disconnecting

To exit the shell when running interactively, press Ctrl-D at the shell prompt.